Online Shoppings Lists and Meal Planning–Help!

Ok, so I decided today that I need to “modernize” my shopping lists and recipes.  No more post-it notes reminding me to buy peanut butter.  I don’t want several cabinets in my kitchen dedicated to recipe storage (I don’t use 90% of those recipes anyway!).  I spent this afternoon investigating different meal-planning, recipe-creation, shopping-list-organizing sites.  I didn’t find a single site that suited all of my needs.  The three most promising sites were Cozi, Allrecipes, and RecipeThing.

Cozi has a beautiful layout, and is very easy to use.  However, it doesn’t allow me to store my own recipes and create a database that easily loads into my shopping lists.  If the recipe is already on their site, it is PERFECT.  But I can’t store my recipes, so I would need to type ingredients in each week, rather than just add those ingredients with a single click.  I love all the different shopping lists though.

Allrecipes offers a free online recipe box.  You can upload your own recipes or recipes from the web into their cache, and then it generates a shopping list/meal plan.   The big catch–you cannot add additional items to the shopping list.  So, for example, if you need cereal and milk, the only way to get them into your list is through a recipe.  This is annoying and will not address my post-it problem.  I think you can upgrade, for a fee, and then this service might be available, but I’d like to check out free options first, and I’d also like to make sure the site does what I want before I start to pay money.

RecipeThing offers a free online recipe box.  It is very easy to use, and stores recipes very nicely.  It allows for meal planning and the creation of a shopping list.  Unfortunately, it does not allow you to upload recipes from the web (unless you create a new recipe card), nor can you add items to your shopping list or delete items you already own.  If I need cereal and milk, they must be part of a recipe from the calendar to make it on the list.  As I mentioned earlier, this does not address my post-it problem.

Maybe I need to compromise.   I would love to sign up for a meal-planning, recipe, shopping-list creation site that does all of the following:

1.  Allows me to create my own shopping lists (preferably multiple lists like Cozi).

2.  Allows me to upload my own recipes, store them, and then with one or two clicks add the ingredients from those recipes to my shopping list and meal calendar.

3.  Allows me to easily print said lists (I do not have a technologically advanced phone where I can view my list from the store).

4.  Allows me to “search” for recipes by ingredients.  So for example, if I have a lot of eggplant, I can easily search for recipes using eggplant.

Any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions?